People who study such things know that complex systems fail catastrophically, in cascading fashion as one failure triggers other, more destructive problems.
Think of the Challenger space shuttle, which was destroyed in 1986 when abnormally cold temperatures led to O-rings becoming hard and failing to seal joints in a solid rocket booster. This led to hot gases escaping and melting key structural elements of the craft, which in turn led to the craft tearing itself apart with wild, uncontrolled gyrations at high speed.
Now, think of the United States as such a complex system, with an ever-expanding list of small failures that might be enough to cascade and produce a metaphorical pile of smoldering rubble when it all implodes.
Even Democrats, who pledge blind allegiance to Clueless Joe Biden, are nervous about the country’s direction, as evidenced by numerous polls. Call this their one moment of clarity.
We are told that the seemingly unsolvable political rift between right and left will eventually bring down the U.S.
But the root cause increasingly looks like it will be economic, only spilling into politics after the initial failure of the economic system – sort of like that hot gas escaping past the failed O-rings on the shuttle.
Democrats, from Biden on down, are fond of playing the class warfare game when it comes to the economy. Blaming greedy corporations for inflation, the top one percent of earners charged with not paying their “fair share,” and anyone living in the middle class accused of being racist ingrates regarding the great largess the political elites have bestowed upon them, those elites love to pit the citizenry against each other.
But, cracks are appearing in the formerly monolithic support for such narratives.
Anyone with a basic understanding of math knows that when a nation’s unfunded liabilities for things such as Medicare and Social Security are $175 trillion and the economic output of all nations on Earth was a comparatively low $104 trillion by comparison, as was the case in 2023, the system can’t be bailed out by raising taxes on the people who already pay about 46 percent of our Federal income taxes. You could take it all and it wouldn’t make a dent in the problem.
Alas, some people can’t think big picture. But they do know almost everything they need, items such as food and shelter – cost 30 percent or so more now than they did when Biden took office. Somehow, Biden’s brain donor advisers tried to convince these people they were wrong about that and coined Bidenomics as their catch phrase.
You don’t hear much about Bidenomics these days.
Instead, you see and hear reports from Millennials who can’t afford houses, new vehicles, or other formerly common trappings of a Middle Class existence. The U.S. population is being beaten into a two-class system, with the bottom class losing ground rapidly.
Democrats find themselves trapped between a rock and a hard place on this. They desperately need to replace these working class voters who have migrated in large numbers to Donald Trump, so they throw open our borders to recruit illegal immigrants and voters.
But, these illegals cost a lot of money to house and feed, so boneheads propose large giveaways, things like $10,000 preloaded debit cards, free housing, free food, free medical care.
Meanwhile, the poverty pimps and the formerly rock-solid Democratic supporters among the lower class, are beginning to scream about losing their part of the pie to these illegals.
Leftist terrorist supporters are unhappy that Biden stands with Israel — sort of. So, again, more illegals are needed to replenish those lost Democratic voters who now vote Hamas.
It’s an endless cycle every bit as vicious as our overspending federal, state and local governments getting us further and further into debt.
Like those shuttle astronauts, we are just along for the ride, one that is very unlikely to end well.
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